Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Costi Ioniţă


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. wirthdrawn Scott Mac (Doc) 11:54, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Costi Ioniţă

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Unreferenced BLP. Claims to be famous Romanian singer. But why should I care? Pcap ping  16:27, 22 January 2010 (UTC) Nomination withdrawn. User:Anonimu provided a good number of references. Passes WP:GNG and probably WP:MUSIC as well now. Pcap ping  19:37, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete unsourced bio of a non-notable. Should be speedy.Bali ultimate (talk) 16:28, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Romania-related deletion discussions.  -- Pcap  ping  16:29, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  -- Pcap  ping  16:29, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hold on - There are several potential Romanian sources. Can someone proficient in Romanian be called and help understand if it's notable/sourceable? -- Cycl o pia talk  16:37, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Potential sources? No one added anything to support this articles claims or to demonstrate notability in the four years its been here.Bali ultimate (talk) 16:55, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reminding us of this irrelevant fact about the past. Now, instead, there are several Gnews hits in Romanian that need to be triaged -some of them seem to be genuine news sources talking about the subject, but I don't know the language: can you help with that? -- Cycl o pia talk  17:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * lulz, yeah, because everyone here is fluent in Romanian! It frightens me that the !vote below is a blind faith keep and we're dealing with a BLP subject.  JBsupreme (talk) 17:59, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No, everyone is not, and in fact I didn't !vote "keep" for this very precise reason. However we can perhaps contact someone at the Romanian Wikipedia, for example. -- Cycl o pia talk  18:05, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Contacted the Romanian Wikipedia. Hope someone steps in. -- Cycl o pia talk  18:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Responding to Cyclopia's request at the Embassy. None of the sources in the link above are reliable sources. Cancan is the only well-known source, but it's what you'd call a tabloid (at best). --Gutza T T+ 23:31, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Huh? The current English article cites well respected mainstream "quality" newspapers Gândul, Evenimentul Zilei, Mediafax, etc. Pcap ping  23:46, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I was explicitly referring to the link above. --Gutza T T+ 23:51, 22 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - there seem to be some Romanian language sources. Confirmation by a Romanian-speaker would be helpful, but at least some of them - using google translate - assert a degree of notability and have enough details to write at least a short article on this person. Демоны Врубеля/Vrubel&#39;s Demons (talk) 17:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't buy in to "potential sources".  Either source the article with verified reliable third party sources or it gets deleted.  JBsupreme (talk) 17:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree, of course. But could we first look if these are sources, indeed? Or you don't even want to look for sources, now? -- Cycl o pia talk  18:04, 22 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment. I'd like to add that I did read his ro:Costi Ioniţă bio, and none of the claims there seemed to pass WP:MUSIC, but that bio appears quite outdated (besides being referenced only to one primary source) compared to what Anonimu found about him. Pcap ping  19:45, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Currently the article seems to be very reliably sourced and notability is established. -- Cycl o pia talk  14:43, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Notability established not only by Romanian press, but also by academic English language study.Anonimu (talk) 23:50, 23 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep per the latest revisions of the article being well sourced and wikified andyzweb (talk) 22:09, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.